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A Cinderella story set in a mysterious and exotic world, this stunning romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds, to become the most captivating geisha of her day.
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
146 min
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.